The Miami Herald reports:

A federal judge on Thursday ruled Florida's gay-marriage ban unconstitutional and ordered the state to recognize marriages legally performed elsewhere. U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle, however, immediately stayed his order until after the appeals process is completed.

“When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held, will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination,” Hinkle wrote. “Observers who are not now of age will wonder just how those views could have been held.”

Hinkle's decision comes after four different Florida state judges struck down the gay marriage ban. The state's attorney general, under freakazoid question-dodger extraordinaire Governor Rick Scott, had appealed each of those rulings.